Pregnant women, women who may become pregnant, women who are breast-feeding, and children under the age of seven should not eat flathead catfish, gar, bowfin, drum, pickerel or largemouth bass longer than 13 inches because of mercury contamination.

Others should limit their consumption of largemouth bass longer than 13 inches, pickerel, flathead catfish, gar or bowfin to two meals per month but may eat other fish without restriction.